Rev. Kenneth Baker, S.J., has served for the past thirty years as editor of the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1947. After he graduated from Gonzaga University in 1953, he taught Latin, Greek and English at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington, for three years. He studied Theology for four years at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and translated Karl Rahner's Primacy and Episcopate into English. After teaching for two years at Gonzaga University, he did graduate work at Marquette University, published his translation of Rahner's Spiritual Exercises in 1965, and received his Ph.D. in 1967. He returned to Gonzaga to teach and became the head of the Theology Department there in 1968. In 1970 he served as president of Seattle University and in 1971 became editor of the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. In 1973 he published his translation of the Philosophical Dictionary and adapted it to American usage. In 1975 he became president of Catholic Views Broadcasts, Inc., which produces a weekly 15-minute radio program that airs on 50 stations across the United States. He has built and run three community television stations. In 1983 he published a three-volume explation of the faith called Fundamentals of Catholicism.
